to his idol Benito Mussolini in Venice. ...more

August 29, 2008

Eric Dowling, nicknamed "Digger" for helping excavate tunnels used in the breakout from a World War II German prison camp that became known as the "Great Escape," has died. He was 92. ...more

August 8, 2008

After the assassination of the archduke in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, Austria got from Kaiser Wilhelm a "blank cheque" to punish Serbia. Germany would follow whatever course its ally chose to take. Austria chose war on Serbia. And World War I resulted. ...more

July 12, 2008

Madame Tussauds' has a new museum in Berlin - complete with a controversial wax Adolf Hitler hunkered down in his bunker. ...more

July 4, 2008

Sen. John McCain on Thursday rejected the endorsement of the Rev. John Hagee, a televangelist, after a watchdog group released a recording of a sermon in which Hagee said Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust had been part of God's plan to chase the Jews from Europe and drive them to Palestine. ...more

May 23, 2008

Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, 90, thought to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 with a briefcase bomb, died Thursday. ...more

May 3, 2008

Rep. Tom Lantos, who escaped the Nazis and grew up to become a forceful voice for human rights around the world, has died. He was 80. ...more

February 12, 2008

Will Smith is angry over celebrity gossip Web site articles that he said misinterpreted a remark he made in a Scottish newspaper about Adolf Hitler. ...more

December 27, 2007

Local survivors of World War II's Battle of the Bulge are invited to a program on Saturday in Lakeland that includes a video presentation on the fierce fighting in Luxembourg and Belgium. ...more

December 4, 2007

What do Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro and four current Hillsborough County commissioners have in common? ...more

October 26, 2007